![]() Instead, I'd like to focus on some of the more interesting results. ![]() You can, however, download my full Excel spreadsheet if you wish. I'm not going to bother reproducing every test I ran here it's just a whole slew of numbers, and you can find similar on many other sites. I ran a slew of benchmark results, and they all-well, almost all * See openssl benchmarks-showed what you've read on other sites: These new entry-level M1 Macs may be the fastest single-core processors in existence, and they hold up well in multi-core tests as well. When I got my machine, I still had my 16" MacBook Pro, along with my 2018 MacBook Air, and of course, my desktop iMac. I think the Air will be more than sufficient for almost anyone, but me being me, even if I were free to do so, I'd find it hard to buy a machine that was lacking a GPU core, regardless of what marginal performance difference it might make. At that amount, it's a no-brainer to get the MacBook Pro. And if you don't care about storage and are fine with a 256GB SSD in the MacBook Pro, then the price delta for an 8-core GPU machine is only $50. If you want an 8-core GPU in the Air, though, the price delta drops to $200 (if you equalize both with 512GB of storage). At the base level, there's a $300 price gap, which buys you a slightly nicer display, the Touch Bar, an 8-core GPU (versus 7-core in the Air), supposedly better speakers (HDR) and microphone (studio quality). If I didn't have the "must have Touch Bar" constraint, I think I still would have chosen the MacBook Pro. On the storage side, I stuck to the minimum 256GB SSD, because I don't store a lot of stuff on my laptops. On the RAM side, I went with 16GB, thinking that more is better in a machine where you can't ever add any. Given I had to get the MacBook Pro, that really only left choices for RAM and storage size. But some of our apps make use of the Touch Bar, so I need it to support our users and test our apps. Instead, here's what I'll be discussing…īasically, I chose the MacBook Pro because it has a Touch Bar-despite the fact that I hate the Touch Bar. I'm not going to try to replicate those reviews, because they do an excellent job of covering the new M1-powered Macs in a level of detail that I just don't have time to get into. (However, I will add that I did make a video of my MacBook Pro-with its 16GB of RAM- opening 75 apps in just over a minute. Between unboxing videos, extensive benchmark suites, and multi-thousand-word reviews, there is no lack of coverage of these machines. (Thankfully, it only had a net cost of $33 after I sold my 16" MacBook Pro.)īy now, you've probably read a slew of stuff about both the MacBook Pro and its slightly-lighter MacBook Air cousin. ![]() But that doesn't mean this is a work machine it's a personal purchase as I'll use it for my own needs as well. ![]() I recently received my Apple M1-powered 13" MacBook Pro, which is primarily going to be used for testing our apps on Apple silicon, and supporting customers using these machines. ![]()
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